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SEOUL, South Korea — A younger zebra walked, trotted, and galloped for hours within the busy streets of South Korea’s capital earlier than emergency employees tranquilized the animal and introduced it again to a zoo.
The zebra — a male named Sero that was born within the zoo in 2021 — was in steady situation and being examined by veterinarians as of Thursday night, mentioned Choi Ye-ra, an official on the Youngsters’s Grand Park in Seoul.
She mentioned the zoo was investigating how the zebra managed to flee. She didn’t instantly affirm media reviews that the animal partially destroyed the wood fencing surrounding its pen earlier than busting out round 2:50 p.m.
Social media was flowing with smartphone movies of the zebra trotting alongside traces of automobiles that have been ready for the greenlight at an intersection, and galloping by way of a avenue surrounded by business buildings as pedestrians stopped and gasped.
Police and emergency employees managed to nook the zebra after it entered a slim alleyway between homes and shot it with tranquilizers, ending its three hours of freedom.
There have been no instant reviews of accidents or property injury attributable to the zebra working unfastened.